DO has a generally poor reputation in the security industry as abuse from their services is very common - they don't really vet their customers to any real degr

DO has a generally poor reputation in the security industry as abuse from their services is very common - they don't really vet their customers to any real degree. The same is true of e.g. AWS which is why a lot of websites will outright block traffic coming from AWS. The reality is that "anonymous payment" is kind of pointless, it's basically never the payment method that determines abuse potential as abusers have all kinds of ways of making payment anonymously even when only e.g. cc is accepted. What matters is the level of time and effort put into monitoring usage. To be honest, on a pure sniff test your traffic coming from DO is probably more suspicious. There are lots of legitimate uses of commercial VPNs. There are not many legitimate users of consumer web-browsing from DO.